My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?

I’m the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I’ve got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the...

…alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had achieved nothing. He had his life–it was not worth much–not like a life...

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.

Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart,” he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.”Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of...

The Girl does not dream. The Girl has never dreamed.

I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone...

Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going about their normal, everyday affairs. Lovers were whispering to each other, businessmen were poring over spread sheets,...

The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

The factors that we find predicting loneliness are the factors that lead to a disruption of your social relationships.

Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

I am a lonely man,” he said again that evening. “And is it not possible that you are also a lonely person? But I am an older man, and I can live with my loneliness,...

Sentirse solo no es sentirse inferior, sino distinto. El sentimiento de soledad no es una ilusión —como a veces lo es el de inferioridad— sino la expresión de un hecho real: somos, de verdad, distintos....

I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I learned to assume that loneliness should be in part pleasure, sensitizing and clarifying, and that it is even a truer bond among people than any kind...

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

El, you are telling me to run away with a man to become his mistress.””I am telling you to be happy. Even if it lasts only a little while. We must snatch what we can...

Don’t say I’m alone, this makes us depressed. loneliness are the moments when we can know more about ourselves. loneliness are the moments when we are only in God’s company. Just feel it and enjoy...

From midnight to 4: 00 AM is the loneliest time in the world. Because for those of us too sad to sleep, the only thing we have to look at is an empty bed, and...

God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.

Show me what you’ve written,” I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

When we are young we fear we are not alone in the dark, When we grow up we fear we are

Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness in friendship, we are only going to frustrate the friendship. Friendship, camaraderie, intimacy,...

[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must...

If you’ve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays with you.

Claiming to love self, but willingly default to cheating at the first sign of trouble is nothing short of playing yourself. Your ego may feel avenged – temporarily – but your heart and soul, the...

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain,...

Sometimes the rainfallsjust for you and meto be the violinplaying in the backgroundof our loneliness’s song.

People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another.(“The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smith” – Version 1)

One of my biggest weaknesses, one that has always shamed me, is that I have always been lonely. I’ve struggled to make friends because I can be socially awkward, because I’m weird, because I live...

People run away to be alone,’ he said. Some people had to be alone.

I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on the floor, listening to the tube trains passing beneath me. I thought, All those hundreds...

I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

Loneliness Ends With Love

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

The mainland can stretch until it breaks at the weakest points, and those weaknesses are called faults. Each island represented a victory and a defeat: it had either pulled itself free or pulled too hard...

It’s a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.

In a taxi speeding uptown on the West Side Highway, I let my thoughts drift below the surface of the Hudson until it finally occurs to me that feelings fill the gaps created by the...

Do you think you can cause something to happen just from wanting it so much?’ she asked. ‘I don’t get what you mean. Does this have to do with your dad?’ asked Frannie. ‘Not really....

I want to be alone… with someone else who wants to be alone.

Camus had said in his ‘Carnets’ that the lives of others appear always, from the outside, to have a completion our own dismally lacks. Only when we understand this as a projection – that our...

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It is certain that people would understand one another better and...

You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.

Two fears alternate in marriage, of loneliness and of bondage. The dread of loneliness being keener than the fear of bondage, we get married. For one person who fears being thus tied there are four...

To be the only one who knows is lonely. No wonder Solomon, the wisest man, needed 900 concubines.

His cigarettes helped mark the passage of time, especially on days that seemed all sun and sky…The dependable dwindling of his cigarette supply reassured him that he hadn’t been left out here, that eventually he...